dorm | choen

seven

it was 4:30 pm and chase was still hanging up some posters on his side of the room, after spending the whole day putting his clothes in but still missing a lot he was going to rest once he was done with his wall.

he had music playing since his roommate wasn't there, and he had no idea when he was coming so he got comfortable.

he would stare at the other side of the room, the whole "being a girl" thing was a joke because he could see shoes stacked up, men shoes.

he'd hope his roommate was always that clean because he, as mentioned before, hated the mess. as he was very clean and organized himself unlike his friends.

even though all of the posters he was hanging were mainly alternative and rock, he wasn't just all of that. very few people knew he actually enjoyed bubble gum music.

so right now on his speakers, a random song from one of one direction's album was playing. it would be a lie saying he didn't listen to them a lot, he was quite the fan.

but that's something no one really knew because it would ruin his grunge-i'm not like you i have a superior music taste- appearance.

as he sang along the words of that one song, he was too into it that he didn't realize the door had been opened and his roommate was now standing on the door with a slight smile drawn on his lips.

noen knocked on the door to make his presence aware to the other boy, as he hit his knuckles against the door chase jumped a little and turned around.

chase immediately felt as the blood raised to his face, he quickly got off the bed and turned the music off. he coughed awkwardly and looked at the other boy.

"umh hi," he said shyly to the smaller boy leaning on the door frame.

noen fully smiled now. "hey, i'm your roommate, sorry i wasn't here before,"

chase nodded slowly. so this was his roommate, a guy just a couple of inches smaller than him, his hair was dyed on a green that seemed to be fading. he had one hand on his pocket and the other carried a small backpack with...is that?

chase held a chuckle. "is that yours?" he pointed to the backpack hanging from noen's hand.

it was noen's turn to blush. "uh yeah but umh it's a haha it's a joke, like uh-" he stammered as he hid the backpack behind his legs.

"i'm chase," the taller boy introduced himself, stretching a hand to the other boy in the room.

noen bit his lip, "noen," he said as he took the other guys hand like it was some kind of formal introduction.

chase pulled his hand back and as he was going to walk back to his side of the dorm to finish the retouches he heard noen talk.

noen brought his eyebrows together and stared at the speaker and then back at chase "was that one direction playing-"

"we don't mention it." chase cut him off, not daring to look back at noen.

noen giggled and muttered an alright as he made his way to his bed and later on it as he scrolled through his phone.

he's a nice guy, chase thought.